Via adfreak: “Why yes, my replacement liver would love another eggnog!” – – Venables, Bell & Partners (a San Francisco ad agency) sent around “replacement livers” in a bag as the invitation to their company holiday party. I’m simultaneously mortified and amused.
Quite a week! Seemed as though there was some major calendar event every one of the past seven days… “What’s next?” seemed to be the catch-phrase of the week. That said, much of it was pretty damn exhilirating for better and/or for worse. Had a “15 minutes” moment with my 7 Days publication – – […]
Finally getting back around to visiting the Internet iTunes Registry. Indeed, there are some neat reports in there. Still getting a feel for what kind of information it’s really presenting – – i.e., how is it really comparing my tracks against others’? and why does it say I have a diversity of “0” in my […]
We (A. & I) are hanging out with a bunch of friends (maybe about three or four others). There’s some imbibing going on and we’re talking, talking, talking. The discussion is mostly about literature and film and seems to center around titles that are obscure but not necessarily esoteric. The conversation moves toward horror titles […]
To pick up roughly where we left off, I’d like to touch a bit more deeply on the bookmark syncing aspect of the Firefox vs. Safari portion of this pro/con festival. A couple days ago I summed it up as: Firefox Safari Bookmark management Not a big fan of the bookmark management in Firefox. […]
Via Autoblog: John Sturdy, inventory of cruise control died unexpectedly Monday night at age 75. Oh! Mr. Sturdy, how many speeding tickets have I avoided because of your invention? Your legacy lives on.
Via Waxy: “What would Orwell do?” – – a quaint little piece about Facebook: …no surprise that a VC is interested; Facebook’s numbers are impressive. However, there are some significant details that cannot be overlooked. […] Other VCs weren’t very interested […and the] VCs that ARE Interested have strange connections Hmm… Facebook as some giant […]
Time Warner Plans to Sell 5% of AOL to Google: Finally […] Richard D. Parsons […] told Eric E. Schmidt […] that he would accept Google’s recently sweetened offer. Google, which prides itself on the purity of its search results, agreed to give favored placement to content from AOL throughout its site, something it has […]
Via Boing^2: Senate rejects extension of Patriot Act! In a crucial vote early Friday, the bill’s Senate supporters were not able to get the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster by Sens. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and Larry Craig, R-Idaho, and their allies. The final vote was 52-47. Breathe a little easier, folks! currently playing: […]
A change may be due on the web and email apps front… I may be pushing some of the limits of what Apple’s Mail and Safari apps can really offer me but… But I cling to them pretty desperately for some reason. Nostalgia? Because they came as part of the package? Can’t pin it down – – there’s also the pain in the ass of switching applications like this. So after being more/less forced into using Firefox and Thunderbird “exclusively” recently, I thought to myself it might be worth it to give each a shot for a solid week and see how it panned out. After Day 1, I came up with a version of the following scorecard to try and weigh this out for the long term…: